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  * Contributors:
  * IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
  *******************************************************************************/
 package org.eclipse.core.internal.preferences;

 /**
  * Container for the constants used by this plugin.
  * @since org.eclipse.equinox.preferences 1.0
  */
 public interface IPreferencesConstants {
     /**
      * Backward compatibilty: name of the original runtime plugin
      */
     public static final String RUNTIME_NAME = "org.eclipse.core.runtime"; //$NON-NLS-1$

     /**
      * Name of this plugin
      */
     public static final String PREFERS_NAME = "org.eclipse.equinox.preferences"; //$NON-NLS-1$

     /**
      * Command line options
      */
     public static final String PLUGIN_CUSTOMIZATION = "-plugincustomization"; //$NON-NLS-1$

     /**
      * This is the base filename used to construct the name of the preference
      * file and the name of the preference translation file.
      */
     public static final String PREFERENCES_DEFAULT_OVERRIDE_BASE_NAME = "preferences"; //$NON-NLS-1$

     /**
      * The name of the file (value <code>"preferences.ini"</code>) in a
      * plug-in's (read-only) directory that, when present, contains values that
      * override the normal default values for this plug-in's preferences.
      * <p>
      * The format of the file is as per <code>java.io.Properties</code> where
      * the keys are property names and values are strings.
      * </p>
      */
     public static final String PREFERENCES_DEFAULT_OVERRIDE_FILE_NAME = PREFERENCES_DEFAULT_OVERRIDE_BASE_NAME + ".ini"; //$NON-NLS-1$

     /**
      * The simple identifier constant (value "<code>preferences</code>") of
      * the extension point of the Core Runtime plug-in where plug-ins declare
      * extensions to the preference facility. A plug-in may define any number
      * of preference extensions.
      */
     public static final String PT_PREFERENCES = "preferences"; //$NON-NLS-1$

 }

